Over the past few years the equipment I take on holidays (vacations) had shrunk to a Canon HF100 video camera, Panasonic Lumix LC3 camera and Macbook. The cameras are compact and capable of excellent results, but the Macbook while not enormous is still bulky. Since my holiday usage is storing photo’s and video with a bit of email and web browsing the ideal replacement would seem to be a netbook. Have a great compatibility chart for running Mac OS on a range of netbooks, clearly showing what works.

I was interested in getting a used netbook from eBay and after watching prices for a few days settled on an Acer Aspire One ZG5. While not the most compatible netbook (sleep and the card readers don’t work), it’s good enough for my requirements and cost me just over £100. The Dell 10v is probably a better choice but these are currently selling used for £175-£200. Crazy money since a new one direct from dell is £250. The spec of the Aspire One is fairly standard for a netbook, 1.6Ghz Atom processor and GMA 950 graphics, 1Gb ram and 120Gb hard drive.

The biggest failing is the lack of compatibility with the Atheros WiFi card, but that’s easily fixed as I will cover later. In a recent post I detailed my so this time I tried another method. This involves copying the Mac OS install DVD to a USB pen drive or USB hard drive and making the necessary modifications to boot the installer on PC hardware. I chose a 60Gb USB Hard Drive since the only 8Gb Pen Drives I have are very slow on my main hackintosh. This guide is based on as a starting point, with modifications to reduce the amount of terminal work. Before starting you need a few things: • Mac OS X 10.6 install DVD, or an image of this • The • A USB pendrive or USB hard drive of at least 8Gb • • A Working Mac or Hackintosh from which to create the install media Install Method 1.

Put the Mac OS X Install DVD in your optical drive and start Disk Utility. Select the Mac OS X Install DVD part of the disc as shown below. Click File>New>Disk Image from “Mac OS X Install DVD” Select the location to save the image file Once the image creation has finished select the image file listed in the sidebar Click Images>Scan Image for Restore Connect the USB Pen Drive or Hard drive and format with one partition using GUID Partition Table (click the options button to choose this). Restore the Mac OS X Install DVD image to the Pen Drive/Hard Drive using the restore option. Install Chameleon 2 RC4 to the pen Drive/Hard Drive. Make sure the install destination is changed to Mac OS X Install DVD.

Once completed the Pen Drive/Hard Drive should contain a boot file and an Extrafolder. Decompress the aa1.zip file. This should give the folders shown here: The DSDT.aml, com.apple.boot.plist and smbios.plist are copied to the Extra folder on the Pen Drive/Hard Drive. All the kexts are copied to Extra/Extensions.

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The Mac OS X Install DVD drive should look like this when done. Plug the Pen Drive/Hard Drive into the Acer Aspire One and turn the power on. Press F12 to select the startup drive. When the Boot Option menu is displayed select the USB Pen Drive/Hard Drive Allow Chameleon to load and start the Mac OS X Install DVD. Once the Installer has started proceed as normal, using Disk Utility to format the Acer’s hard drive then install Snow Leopard.

The trackpad didn’t work for me so I used a USB mouse to complete the install. The trackpad worked fine once the install was completed. When the Installer has finished and the computer restarts press F12 again and select the pen Drive/Hard Drive again, NOT the Aspire One’s internal hard drive. When the Chameleon selection screen is shown press one of the arrow keys and select the Aspire One’s internal hard drive. The image below was take after I had setup the Aspire One so I have a backup partition as well. Hit return/enter to continue.

Go through the welcome screens and setup your account, after this the Aspire One should show the Mac desktop. Making the Aspire One’s hard drive bootable uses the same steps as making the install drive bootable. Copy the aa1.zip file and Chameleon installer to the Aspire One, using the USB pen Drive or Hard Drive. Run the Chameleon installer and select the Aspire One’s internal hard drive as the destination. Copy the DSDT.aml, com.apple.boot.plist and smbios.plist to the Extra folder in the root of the hard drive. The kexts are copied to Extra/Extensions. At this point the hard drive looked like this: The display of the Aspire One was looking stretched at this point as it was using an 800×600 resolution.

Open a terminal window, type sudo su and enter the account password. Next drag the patch27ae.command from the gma_patch folder (it was in the aa1.zip archive) onto the terminal window and hit return/enter. This should patch the GMA950 drivers to allow 1024×600 resolution. The final step is to set permissions on the files and generate new kext caches.

The following commands should be entered into the terminal window. I received the following Disk Utility error near the end of the process to restore from the Install DVD disk image to an external hard drive (in my case, a Fujitsu 80Gb 2.5″): “Restore Failure – Could Not Restore – Cannot Allocate Memory” When I verified the external hard drive, it indicated that there were errors (sorry, I’ve since erased and successfully re-verified the drive so I’m not sure of the exact nature of the errors at this juncture). This happened on two successive restore attempts. I’m reluctant to try anything until I get a clean restore, particularly as I haven’t figured out a method of extracting a Windows XP restore image from the Acer in the event that things go wrong and I need to reinstall XP. I have a new Mac Mini (entry-level model with 2Gb of RAM) and am running Mac OS X 10.6.3.

(my last Mac was a IIsi or a IIvx – in other words, I’ve been out of the Mac loop for a very long time). (thanks in advance!).

Update 2: Well, the installer – after the 7th or 8th launch – finally displayed a “Change Install Location” button (is it possible that the Chameleon installer script scans for mounted drives and takes a minute or more to display the button, once it has determined that it is not just the internal system drive that is mounted?) I was then able to install Chameleon on my 8Gb USB thumb drive. I also uncompressed the aa1.zip file and copied the specified files to the designated locations in the thumb drive file/folder hierarchy.

When finished, I double-checked that the folders and files listed in the documentation above matched what I had on the thumb drive. By the way, none of the ‘issues’ I encountered are the fault of the documentation here, which is about as comprehensive as anything I’ve seen! My current problem is that once I press any key “to enter startup options” and select the icon representing the Mac OS X Install “DVD”, the system flashes a message and reboots (I can see a reference to ‘pci root uid’ in the message, but it will require successive attempts to get the entire text).

I have one of those SanDisk thumb drives with a launcher partition, and it’s perhaps that partition that is causing the problem. It seems as though I need to find a utility, if possible, to completely blow away the launcher partition (designed, presumably, to make the thumb drive more useful to some Windows users). Three icons are shown just before I start the Mac OS X installation process: 1. An icon representing the USB thumb drive with the Mac OS X installation software 2. A hard drive icon (similar to the Disk Utility) icon – is this perhaps the launcher partition? A Windows logo icon with the word “ACER” underneath.

I’m getting there. Update 3: A quick note regarding the earlier reported issues with restoring the Mac OS X install DVD image to an 80Gb hard drive.

The drive has passed all Disk Utility verification checks with flying colours. The *only* time it failed a verification test was immediately following the failure of the image restore operation to the drive. The drive is either too large (!) or it has an anomaly that isn’t detected by Disk Utility. After deleting the SanDisk USB thumb drive’s launcher stuff (a utility is available at the SanDisk web site), I have now concluded that the hard drive icon displayed via the initial Chameleon screen is probably that of the Acer’s recovery Windows XP partition, and not that of a second thumb drive partition. I’m currently stuck on a ‘pci root uid not found’ message that is displayed immediately after I select the Mac OS X install icon. The Acer laptop reboots right after the message flashes on the display.

In summary then, one could say that the minor issues I’ve encountered have been atypical. The instructions posted on this site have been excellent. The only stumbling block at this juncture has been the ‘pci root uid not found’ message, which I hope to resolve soon. (Remember, if it isn’t already obvious, that I’m working from a position of ‘recent Mac inexperience’). @kabuto – I didn’t have to take the screen apart, the WiFi card already had two cables connected which unplugged and went onto the new card. The swap took around 20 minutes.

I have also taken an Acer Aspire One screen out to replace it and that job also took about 20 minutes. I have other USB pen drives that are quicker than the 8Gb ones, OSX seems fussy about flash memory drives although SDHC cards from several brands all work fine. I used a USB HD as it’s much quicker than any USB pen drive I have. @Doug – I have two SATA to USB 2.5″ HD cases that work fine with OSX and an IDE to USB that isn’t recognised at all, so USB hard drives aren’t all compatible. Maybe your problem with the Fujitsu HD is either errors/bad sectors on the drive or a problem with the chipset it uses. The ‘pci root uid not found’ error could be DSDT.aml related, are you using exactly the same Aspire One I was? A different model could need different mods in the file.

I haven’t seen the problems you described with Chameleon, what system are you using to prepare the Install drive? These issues could be related to that system rather than the new Install media you are creating. I think my expectations regarding external USB drive compatibility have been a little too high, but the drive verifies OK and works fine for short-term backup purposes. Hey just want to say thanks for the guide, so well put together and easy to follow I now have snow running on my AOA150, seems all good but it randomly restarts itself (sometimes just a sudden restart, and sometimes locks and displays ‘you need to turn of your computer” in a few languages) averages around 5-50mins of flawless usage before a reboot is there a logfile kept anywhere that will tell me whats going wrong? I have upgraded the ram/hdd (2.5gb/320gb) so i will investigate creating my own DSDT and report back.

In the meantime, i would love to hear from anyone who had&fixed these problems! Oh if anyone hasn’t checked out iportable 10.6.2, do so, it will boot up live on an aspire onehas saved me many times in my hackbook adventures 🙂. : Hey just want to say thanks for the guide, so well put together and easy to follow I now have snow running on my AOA150, seems all good but it randomly restarts itself (sometimes just a sudden restart, and sometimes locks and displays ‘you need to turn of your computer” in a few languages) averages around 5-50mins of flawless usage before a reboot is there a logfile kept anywhere that will tell me whats going wrong? I have upgraded the ram/hdd (2. C Program For Bisection Method Download on this page. 5gb/320gb) so i will investigate creating my own DSDT and report back.

In the meantime, i would love to hear from anyone who had&fixed these problems! Oh if anyone hasn’t checked out iportable 10.6.2, do so, it will boot up live on an aspire onehas saved me many times in my hackbook adventures thats 1.5gb ram – i would love to be able to install 2.5gb! I will investigate creating my own DSDT and report back. Seem to have fixed the problem, it was kexts not dsdt if anyone else is having same problem try this: follow this excelent guide exactly but don’t run the block of terminal commands in step 6 install the kexts one by one and test for a few hours beteween each for stability issues (drag and drop single kexts onto kextutility icon.

Don’t just doubleclick kextutility as it will install all at once so you won’t know which is causing problems) so far i have no issues with the following kexts: voodooHDA, voodooPS2, voodoobattery, CPUi loving my mac mini! Now if anyone has the VGAout working it would be perfect!

I followed this guide and snow leopard works perfectly on my zg5. Some things that you should know: – Chameleon that is linked on this guide doesn’t work. I couldn’t select my external hard drive when i was creating a Mac OSX disk. I had to use a newer version which is also on insanelymac website, just google – After the installation, I got the Install Failed error.

However, after restart, everything worked just fine. – For the wifi, I bought this wifi adapter from amazon which is supposed to work fine on hackintoshes[according to the comments]: – Do NOT use Netbook Installer or anything. It seems to mess it up even more. Aa1.zip works perfectly on the system. Hi everyone, thanks to this great tutorial I´ve installed SL 10.6.1. On my Acer 532h.

So far it works fine (apart from the change to the Resolution 1024×600). But: I always fail to upgrade to 10.6.2. Can anyone tell me/us what the following in this tutorial concrete means: “placed (mach_kernel_atom2) in the root of the hard drive”? I guess it´s not simply do drag the folder into the first directory of the hard drive?

(The same directory where the extra folder is placed). I´ve done so and edited the com.apple.boot.plist as shown above. (How to edit a boot.plist see here: ) After that I rebooted and it worked. Then I started the Combo 10.6.2.

The installation process was finished I restartet and couldn´t boot no more. My Assumption is that there are some terminal commands needed to place the mach_kernel in the root of the hard disk,? If that is the case could anybody post them here or give us a link. Thanks a lot. Greetings to the community Kola.

This Guide was brilliant. Now these are some of the problems I came across that I solved with much research on the web that may help some people: I do not own a Mac so I decided to install an image of OS X on vm ware workstation.This did not work so needed to get a loan of a Mac from a friend.spent a whole day messing with the VM Ware trying to get it to work so dont waste your time. Next problem I encountered was when booting the Mac OS X i received “Can’t find mach_kernel” after hours of Troubleshooting I found It was to do with the way I partitioned the drive. I created 2 partitions on the internal hard drive to install both OS X and Windows 7. I used the second partition to install OS X and keeping the first for Windows.

OS X needs to be on the first partition for chameleon to read it. Well I think so anyway It worked for me. These might help someone out that got stuck in the same loop.

Saying all that works perfectly. Thanks again Basshead for the time put into this step by step guide. Hi, First of all thanks for the tutorial, it was a big help. I’ve complete the install but the ethernet, track pad, sound aren’t working. The rest seems ok and runs pretty fast. If I go into the system profiler it says there is a ethernet card in pci section but it has no drivers.

These are the problems I found whilst installing, would any of these cause these things not to work? When installing Chameleon 2 RC4 onto the pen drive it never completed.

It gets to about 90% and just sits there forever saying something like writing registables. I just force quit it and moved on. All the files appear to be there. After the installation of mac os complete it said it failed to install. I pressed the restart button and everything still appeared ok. “The final step is to set permissions on the files and generate new kext caches” Doing this cause loads of error messages.

Is that normal? The laptop I’m using isn’t a zg5 but a acer aspire one a150-ab and the bios is version 3301. Would any of these course the problems? Any help would be greatful!!!! Thanks again. I finally had some success.

I used a flash drive to install, but kept getting “Install Failed”. Probably 10 times. Then I used an external drive, and had the same result, twice. It was then that I discovered that when Chameleon started, I had to “hit any key” very quickly before the progress bar reached the end. Otherwise, it would take me to the wrong screen (boot menu), and it would try to install again.

By hitting a key before, though, it took me to the screen with the two Apple logos and I was able to choose the drive I wanted to boot. Also, I have a list of items that don’t work. Card Readers, Trackpad, WiFi, Sound In, Sound Out, Sleep, and most distressing – Ethernet. I can live with most of those, but the Ethernet is killing me!! My NetBook has NO NET! Would this work with Leopard, cuz Im trying to install I get to the part of installing Mac, but its just an apple screen and then it restarts. And on teh screen it says PCR[or something] UID not found.

It took me a while to get the full message cuz it flashes off fast. I did everything right but it still not working correctly. I have an Acer Aspire one ZG5 running windows vis-shit. Please respond back quick because I have to return my hard drive to my uncle in about a week from now because he needs it. I recently used this guide to install 10.6 on my AOA 150 ZG5 REMEMBER, use a 10.6 disc, I had the hardest time getting this to work then realized my disc was a 10.6.2!!! I then had problems running the commands for the kexts but the chmod chown etc commands worked for the permission stuff.

Had errors on the mkext commands I used kext helper and dragged all the kexts to it, let it do its magic, it hung on reboot but a power cycle brought up 10.6 with everything working but wifi and the sd ports. Currently waiting my wifi card to come in. :I recently used this guide to install 10.6 on my AOA 150 ZG5 REMEMBER, use a 10.6 disc, I had the hardest time getting this to work then realized my disc was a 10.6.2!!!

I then had problems running the commands for the kexts but the chmod chown etc commands worked for the permission stuff. Had errors on the mkext commands I used kext helper and dragged all the kexts to it, let it do its magic, it hung on reboot but a power cycle brought up 10.6 with everything working but wifi and the sd ports.

Currently waiting my wifi card to come in I also had a problem beginning the installation with an error the same as Doug above, that it was “pci root uid” and then it would restart. I realized my BIOS had never been upgraded and was on 3305, upgrading to 3310 FIXED THIS ISSUE! Also, it fixed what I thought was a dead battery!

So I finally got up to 10.6.4 I used teateam’s 10.6.4 kernel instead of the 10.6.2 (found on instanelymac.com forums) and used OSx86Tools to load the new kernel. Then I upgraded straight from 10.6 to 10.6.4! I had to reload the kexts after the upgrade though. Also, after following your instructions, I had an extremely slow system, including keyboard response and boot time I used OSx86Tools and ran a Repair Permissions and Set Extensions Permissions Basically, I think you can use OSx86Tools to do all the steps you need after installing Chameleon to ensure it boots properly. You can have it load all the kexts from the aa1.zip file too! My only problem now is that while my CPU scales speed properly on the AC adapter, on the battery it sticks at 800MHz and doesn’t move, making the system lag quite a bit on battery. Still working this issue.

I’ve just bought an entry level MacMini and would LOVE to get Mac OS onto my AcerOne. This tutorial seems great, but I have a couple of queries: 1.

I have the ZG5 model, bought about 18 months ago, with the standard 512mb RAM and 8GB internal HD. Is this enough memory to intall and run OSX? What happens to the already installed Linux OS that’s on there?

Does it get erased to make room for OSX, or is it still on the machine after installing OSX? I guess if it can be erased it would make more space for running OSX. Thanks for your help. Stuck on step 4. I’ve done all the prep work on the esb drive, but when I get to the point of connecting it to the acer I run into a snag. The chameleon icon comes up, with the little progress bar below it.

When I let this bar run it’s course, the acer just restarts an opens up with the regular linux desktop. It looks like it’s not installing properly and I don’t get as far as being given the chance to open disk utilities to format the harddrive.

I cannot get as far as the screen shot shown at step 5. Any ideas why this is happening? Any ideas for a work-around?

It’s 10.6.4 that I have, from the recovery disk included in my recently purchased macmini. Stuck on step 4. I’ve done all the prep work on the esb drive, but when I get to the point of connecting it to the acer I run into a snag. The chameleon icon comes up, with the little progress bar below it. When I let this bar run it’s course, the acer just restarts an opens up with the regular linux desktop. It looks like it’s not installing properly and I don’t get as far as being given the chance to open disk utilities to format the harddrive.

I cannot get as far as the screen shot shown at step 5. Any ideas why this is happening? Any ideas for a work-around? It’s 10.6.4 that I have, from the recovery disk included in my recently purchased macmini You’ve got to press a key when that progress bar pops up.

Great tutorial! I´ve followed it by the letter and it worked on first try. I´ve installed the kernel of Teateam for 10.6.4 (mach_kernel_atom) and backed up the old one. After reboot I installed the Combo Update 10.6.4 from Apple Sited and rebooted again, but it just kept on rebooting, untill I put in the command at Chameleon bootmenu the name of the old kernel, eg. It booted into OS X and it showed that the update succeeded. I´m running 10.6.4 but every time I reboot I have to type the name of the old kernel to be able to boot into OS X.

Before I screw up my Mac Mini do I reinstall Teateam´s kernel or do I have to modify something? Did I do something wrong, installing the kernel and updating to 10.6.4?? Any help would be much appreciated. After reading everything I could find, it turned out that I had to hit F2 within the 1 second when the Acer screen first appears, when the note in the lower left corner appears (if you don’t make it the thing goes ahead and starts with the password screen and you have to shut down and start over). Then I went through some of the choices at the top, one of which was “MAIN”. That opened another screen where I noticed F12 for Boot Option was disabled.

I enabled it and arrowed over to “Save and Exit” and hit Enter. I expected it to boot from the thumb drive, or continue booting into Windows, but instead it went to a blank screen with a blinking cursor. I could find no way to shut down, so I had to remove the battery and pull the power plug to turn it off. Next, I put the battery back in and plugged in the power adapter/charger and pushed the START button. When the Acer screen appeared, I quickly pressed F12. This time it went to the Boot Option screen and I arrow-selected the USB flash drive and did another “Save and Exit”. Again the thing went to a blank screen with a blinking cursor and got stuck again.

Again I had to remove the battery and unplug it to make it turn off. Back at my iMac, I double-checked the files in the thumb drive side-by-side with the graphic representations in the tut, and all is perfect. This is turning out to be a lot harder than I expected. Any ideas what I should do now? ::ok got it to work but now how cani make it dual boot oe even triple boot mac os x win xp and linusthx I acutally have my acer zg5 as a Triple boot OSX 10.6.3, windows 7 and linux mint. I did it a little different though, instead of using chameleon for the boot loader, i use the grub2 loaded all my partitions doing Linux last, it tried to make a working boot, all I had to do was change the menu.cfg file and now gives me the option for each.

If I remember i will post what my menu.cfg file looks like later. I am still waiting for my new wifi card to come in. :::ok got it to work but now how cani make it dual boot oe even triple boot mac os x win xp and linusthx I acutally have my acer zg5 as a Triple boot OSX 10.6.3, windows 7 and linux mint. I did it a little different though, instead of using chameleon for the boot loader, i use the grub2 loaded all my partitions doing Linux last, it tried to make a working boot, all I had to do was change the menu.cfg file and now gives me the option for each. If I remember i will post what my menu.cfg file looks like later.

Presto Mister Photo Download. I am still waiting for my new wifi card to come in. Just finish the triple boot now im planing to try the quad boot that will be a pain o and i steel use chameleon. The internal microphone works for me after installing these kexts with kexthelper.

Courtesy of JaE-V from insanelymac forums! About the processor clocking at half speed on battery: I found a weird workaround for the issue. I installed netbookinstaller on my zg5 after all these installations, and i realized that the battery indicator disappeared. Now, the system thinks that it’s always working on adapter so the cpu never clocks down. The red light on the computer still blinks when it’s running low on battery so you’d have some idea when you’d have to charge.

I’m just about ready to have a go at this, as I have finally been able to get my hands on a 10.6 DVD. Couple of queries first: The aspire one that I have is a very basic one. It looks like the one in the pics, but it only has 512 ram, 8gb storage. It has a couple of memory expansion slots, but is the 8 that’s built in enough, an is the ram big enough? I’d like to use the netbook for keynote, so will I have room on my onboard storage for that program? If not, can keynote be run from an SD card? I’ve never done anything with terminal before, is it straightforward?

: The clue is in the title. This guide is for Snow Leopard, which is 10.6.

Hi, yes I had spotted that. I had assumed that an older version would work in the same way. I thought that compatibility and other issues would only be a problem with newer OS, so I thought I’d be safe enough trying an older version. If the SD cards don’t work, I may have to give up on it anyway, because with only 8gig on-board I don’t think I’d have room for the OS and “Keynote”, and it’s for Keynote that I wanted the machine. Thank for your help.

I’m about to give this a go. A couple of questions first. I already have a 10.6.dmg file. I assume I can skip the part about creating an image and just put it on the hard drive?

If #1 is correct, including formatting my external USB HD on a Mac and copying the files over, how long should this take? I am going to arrange to borrow some time on a friend’s Mac and wanted a ballpark of how long the Mac preparation portion would take. (forgive me, I’ve got two kids under 2, so I have to plan every minuteand the wife doesn’t view this little project as “vital”go figure) 3. If I make an additional partiiton (or 2) on my existing Acer HD (320GB) a.) How big should I make the partition for the Mac OS, and what format. B.) Can I have a separate partition to include things like “My Documents” that both Windows and Mac can access? Wow, I had more questions than I thought. : I’m about to give this a go.

A couple of questions first. I already have a 10.6.dmg file. I assume I can skip the part about creating an image and just put it on the hard drive? If #1 is correct, including formatting my external USB HD on a Mac and copying the files over, how long should this take? I am going to arrange to borrow some time on a friend’s Mac and wanted a ballpark of how long the Mac preparation portion would take. (forgive me, I’ve got two kids under 2, so I have to plan every minuteand the wife doesn’t view this little project as “vital”go figure) 3. If I make an additional partiiton (or 2) on my existing Acer HD (320GB) a.) How big should I make the partition for the Mac OS, and what format.

B.) Can I have a separate partition to include things like “My Documents” that both Windows and Mac can access? Wow, I had more questions than I thought. 1) If you have the.dmg file already then you don’t have to create it.

2) I assume you are talking about restoring the image onto the USB; it will probably take ~30 minutes, so you’re probably best off allotting 45 mins to this process. 3a) That entirely depends on what you want to do with it.

How much space do you think you will need for it? I, personally, would say at least 40GB min. B) I’m not entirely sure if you can natively do this, as I have never dual booted.

I’m fairly certain you can access the other drive while in the other OS, but even if you can’t you can check out programs like Dropbox, which allow you to sync files/folders via their servers. I believe dual booting Snow Leopard and Windows 7 is possible, but have not tried it myself since I don’t use Windows and Mac OS on the same hard drive.

I find it easier to keep them on separate drives and use the Bios boot menu to select them. There are guides on dual booting at insanelymac.com and all the other hackintosh forums. You can have a separate partition for document storage if dual booting (i.e. One Mac OS partition, One Windows Partition annd one for document storage. This document partition would be independant of the Mac OS user account folders and Window’s (My)Documents, as I don’t know of any way to map both windows and Mac folders (documents, photo’s, music etc.) to the same partition. The thing to be carefull of is the format of the storage partition.

Fat 32 will work with both Windows and Mac OS, but is limited to a maximum single file size of 4Gb. Mac OS can access NTFS drives read only by default, and full read/write access is possible using several software packages many of which are free. Windows can read/write Mac HFS+ partitions using Macdrive or similar software, but it’s not free. @clement: why dont you take grub? It’s included in the most linux distro’s and it’s easy to configure and well documented on the internet, too 😉 I do have another Problem, the installation on the AA1’s hard drive went well, but when I restarted and installed the chameleon on the internal harddrive, i got a error-message in a gray window that said i have to restart my computer. But after restarting (i weren’t able to do something else, the desktop was blank) i just got the message panic cpu 0 caller and some numbers after the gray apple screen. What went wrong, what else can I do?

I didn’t found anything helpful yet Thank you! :I believe dual booting Snow Leopard and Windows 7 is possible, but have not tried it myself since I don’t use Windows and Mac OS on the same hard drive. Yep, been doing it for a while now with Chameleon. The key is to keep that externally-bootable MacOS “install USB” around: 1.

Install OSX 2. Install Windows 7 (which destroys the Chameleon bootloader) 3. Boot from OSX install media again, manually reinstall Chameleon on the “Mac HD” 4. Reboot You will now get the graphical loader menu with the option to boot to MacOS or Win7, all off one drive.

Safer to use separate drives, but in the case of (most) notebooks this is your only option. Hope some one can help me. I have Aspire ZG5.

I follow the direction on this post. I installed Snow Leopard 10.6.0, when the installation reach to like 8 minute left, a pop up screen appear saying “cannot install, please restart”. So i did restart and everything work fine.

However, the sound does not work. I cannot use Terminal but I can use it in safe mode.

Is it normal that i get the “cannot install, please restart” at a 8 minute left toward installation completed? Anyway you can provide link to sound so that the audio and internal mic work? : Great guide thanks for taking the time. I managed to get 10.6 up and running perfectly. How exactly do I upgrade?

Do i just down load and replace a kernel file?? Sorry ultra noob here. Download the patched mach_kernel patch from teateam for 10.6.6 and replace it with the original one. Before doing the update, RESTART THE COMPUTER then run the update. It should work fine. I updated my computer 3 times and 2 times I forgot the reset the computer after replacing the mach_kernel and I got kernel panics[which aren’t too hard to fix once you know how but still pain in the ass].

:: Great guide thanks for taking the time. I managed to get 10.6 up and running perfectly. How exactly do I upgrade? Do i just down load and replace a kernel file??

Sorry ultra noob here. Download the patched mach_kernel patch from teateam for 10.6.6 and replace it with the original one. Before doing the update, RESTART THE COMPUTER then run the update. It should work fine.

I updated my computer 3 times and 2 times I forgot the reset the computer after replacing the mach_kernel and I got kernel panics[which aren’t too hard to fix once you know how but still pain in the ass] can you post a link to the mach_kernel patch. @Eric: Yes i have had some success. Firstly i installed windows 7.

Then installed 10.6 as per the guide. Then downloaded the 10.6.6 combo dmg from apple. Updated as per instuctions. At this stage i could only boot from usb. I then booted to windows and set the windows partition as active. Installed EasyBCD and made an entry for MAC.

In the EasyBCD entry i had to change the boot setting from MBR to BOOT. So now it boots to the Windows 7 EasyBCD screen giving me the option to boot either MAC or Windows. If i select MAC Chameleon will only show windows unless i hit the left or right key. This then brings up the same options i had on my original USB boot. Its a bit of a dodgey way around it but it works.

Hi all, I finally wanna give it a try on my Aspire One A110 160G. I followed everything correctly but when I try to boot up the jumpdrive (actually it is a 40G usb HD). I can see the Chameleon load screen. If I let the progress bar to run it will force to reboot. If I press Enter or something it will go into the select install with Mac install icon on left, a HD icon in middle and Windows icon on the right.

If I choose Left icon to install Mac Os X it will just reboot. If I select the HD icon it will just go to blank blinking screen cursor screen. If I choose windows icon of course it will go to windows.

It will not let me start the install? Anyone know why? BIOS is 3310. It has the default XP installed. And I used the 10.6.3 install DVD disc from my macbook pro (it is not a download iso). Hi everybody, i have a AA1 zg5: windows7 + leopard 10.5.8 + linux boot with chamaleon, erased the linux partition i installed snowleopard follow everithing.

It starts up but: -audio doesnt work, i try vodooHDA but still “no device” and error IO” in pref pannel audio. -no wifi card (the internal is the intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG -i cannot use either the usb wifi: i cannot access the network pref panel, circle spin=kernel panic?

Try opening the panel and i have to force quit. Everything seams work fine. Firstly I’d like to thank the author for such a simple yet fully-functional guide. I followed the guide, and my AOA-150 is up and functional. The wi-fi (dell 1390) works like a charm, multi-touch is supported and the screen resolution is also perfect. But for some reason I can’t get it connected to external display.

Whenever I connect the VGA cable, the OS just freezes and requires rebooting. On the other hand, if I boot up with VGA cable plugged in, the display is mirrored right upto the point when OS has booted – I can see the BIOS, chameleon, apple logo but once it goes past the apple logo, the display vanishes. Any help would be greatly appreciated. PS: I did search various forums and search engines for like a good 8 hours, but in vain. I was able to get Snow Leopard 10.6 running on my Aspire One but every time that I get to the lines that I have to enter into the terminal to set permisison and reboot I get a kernel panic.

I have gone through the entire process of a complete re-installation 3 times already and everytime I enter the permissions I get the kernel panic on restart. I’m not sure which one of the lines is causing the problem but does anybody know a way to rescue the system after a kernel panic so that I don’t have to do a complete reinstallation everytime it happens? Yesterday I successfully installed Windows 7 on top of the existing OSX on my ZG5. It was actually much easier than I thought. I just created a partition on my HDD using the Disk Utility and named it Windows. Then I used a program called WinSetupFromUSB on a Windows machine to create a bootable Windows 7 USB stick(This program seems to be the best one that works, I’ve tried a couple other but didn’t work. It’s also very simple to use) and boot up the computer from the stick.

Then I installed the Windows 7 normally and choose the Windows partition I created and everything went fine(actually for some reason the first time it didn’t work, I had to install a second time then it worked perfect) The Windows worked fine but now the Chameleon never showed up because the computer boots only from the Windows partition. Someone already mentioned this but just install a free program called EasyBCD and Add a New Entry and choose Mac OSX but make sure to choose MBR and not EFI(EFI is default) then save and restart. Now you will be able to choose between Mac OSX and Windows 7, if you choose Mac OSX, it will go on to Chameleon as usual and boot up OSX just fine.

I’m sure there’s a way to just boot from OSX partition and just use Chameleon to choose between the two but this was easy and did the job, I don’t mind the additional few seconds that it takes to boot. Now I have best of both worlds 🙂.

: @HJ I recall having a similar issue, make sure you use the sudo su command. I think (from memory, it’s been a while) I entered the sudo su command before graphics driver and each of the drivers, also just before you copy and paste the wall of chmod commands. Sorry I can’t be much help Hi, thanks for your reply. I was actually able to get it working by using kexthelper instead of typing the commands into the terminal the way baashead describes it here. I wonder if they built in wifi card is working in snow leopard finally.

Many thanks for an excellent tutorial. I have a ZG5, and have successfully installed the 10.6.0 as detailed above, then used Teateam’s video on InsanelyMac to upgrade straight to 10.6.7, having first downloaded the combo update from Apple, sleepenabler.kext and the latest kernel, details in the forum. Only question I have is whether or not the sleepenabler is required or even works on the ZG5, being new to this?! Clicking on Sleep certainly puts the machine to sleep; but no way to bring it back, except by power off and reboot. Great Tut Only issue I had was with patch27ae.command which only served to lock up my Hackintosh. I was getting errors in the iTunes coverflow that it could not render albums on this mac. The problem is that iTunes will not render coverflow in 800×600 mode so I searched for another resolution.

I found (SnowGMA.zip) in another forum. : Hi all, I finally wanna give it a try on my Aspire One A110 160G. I followed everything correctly but when I try to boot up the jumpdrive (actually it is a 40G usb HD). I can see the Chameleon load screen. If I let the progress bar to run it will force to reboot. If I press Enter or something it will go into the select install with Mac install icon on left, a HD icon in middle and Windows icon on the right. If I choose Left icon to install Mac Os X it will just reboot.

If I select the HD icon it will just go to blank blinking screen cursor screen. If I choose windows icon of course it will go to windows. It will not let me start the install? Anyone know why? BIOS is 3310. It has the default XP installed.

And I used the 10.6.3 install DVD disc from my macbook pro (it is not a download iso). I have the same problemanybody have any ideas? I´m running Leopard 10.5.8 in a ZG5 A110, with SSD 8Gb and it works like a charm. Even better than ubuntu 10.04, the best OS i´ve ever used since osx. I have 1,5gb Ram and i replace the wireless card (dell 1390 rev.04) and it works. Also works webcam, card reader, speakers and headphones, vga, ethernetthe only thing that does not work is the sleeping mode but it doesn´t matter for me.

I have no kernel panics, no crashes at all, i can use skype, tweetie, adium, radium, itunes, spotifyobviously i use it as netbook, not as macbook pro. In a few days i will try to replace the ssd. Even the 1Gb free on it, i think 1,8″ zif 60Gb fix the space problems because i want to try iworks, photoshop and who knowslogic 9. GOOD NEWS PEOPLE!!! I’VE GOT THE SD SLOT WORKING ON MY ZG5!!! To be honest, I got this done totally accidentally, I wasn’t trying to find a way to get it working or anything.

And I think it only seems to work when you have Windows 7 installed as a dual boot. But here is what I was doing: I was looking for a way to boot the computer up from the SD Slot which wasn’t successful of course, so I booted up Windows 7 while the SD card was inside. Windows 7 automatically installed the drivers for the SD Card.

Then when I restarted the computer, before Windows 7 booted up, it did some more updates which probably has to do with the BIOS or something. But the next time I booted up on OSX, the SD card was visible in the devices and it was working perfectly!!

There was a SD icon in the menu bar as well with some messages. I’ll upload photos soon so I can explain, I’m away from my computer right now. :Hi bash do you update your picture? The Chameleon boot display pic looks better than last time I came here My Acer Aspire One running very stable on 10.6.3 with your post. And now I update to 10.6.7 with satisfied result. Everythings work except SD Expansion slot, but I don’t use it anyway Wi-fi, VGA, Sound, Bluetooth, MMC Card, Sleep and Hibernate All works like a charm. Thanks dude Hey, wich aspire one do you have?, and how do you get the sleep, hibernate to work??

Your VGA output works as well?? Mine is 150 running 10.6.4.

: Firstly I’d like to thank the author for such a simple yet fully-functional guide. I followed the guide, and my AOA-150 is up and functional. The wi-fi (dell 1390) works like a charm, multi-touch is supported and the screen resolution is also perfect. But for some reason I can’t get it connected to external display.

Whenever I connect the VGA cable, the OS just freezes and requires rebooting. On the other hand, if I boot up with VGA cable plugged in, the display is mirrored right upto the point when OS has booted – I can see the BIOS, chameleon, apple logo but once it goes past the apple logo, the display vanishes.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. PS: I did search various forums and search engines for like a good 8 hours, but in vain. Ok so do I need to buy the internal wireless card, or the regular wireless card? Pleaseeee help. Do I need to get the Dell 1390 internal wireless card, or the Dell 1390 wireless card??

LOL sorry I’m a noob 🙂 but I really need to now because the internal is $60 and just the regular card that is much more easy to install is only $20 Please answer soon because I do not want to hackintosh it until I can be sure that I will have WiFi after I do it. Also is there any way to keep my Windows XP and also have Snow Leapord? If that is possible please tell it to me in really nooby instructions because I am not to smart when it comes to all this stuff. Thanks AND PLEASE SOMEONE REPLY SOON. : Do I need to get the Dell 1390 internal wireless card, or the Dell 1390 wireless card?? LOL sorry I’m a noob but I really need to now because the internal is $60 and just the regular card that is much more easy to install is only $20 Please answer soon because I do not want to hackintosh it until I can be sure that I will have WiFi after I do it.

Also is there any way to keep my Windows XP and also have Snow Leapord? If that is possible please tell it to me in really nooby instructions because I am not to smart when it comes to all this stuff.

Thanks AND PLEASE SOMEONE REPLY SOON. You don’t have to swap anything if had mine, Acer AO531h with ar5bx95 wifi chip, for dual boot with Windows you need osinstall.mpkg mbr version and replace the original (guid). But, my Acer come with wi-fi preinstalled, I dunno if you add it manually. Technically it will works, but who knows, it’s “hack”intosh 🙂.

My ZG5 hackintosh is now in my basement with an external HD serving ITunes media over its 10/100 connection to my whole home!!! I Can run AppleTV2, 3 idevices and even remote desktop into it at the same time. According to my kill-a-watt, its pulling less than 15W including my external HD. With HD set to idle when not used, My estimated energy cost is $12 bucks a year (estimated over a 96 hour sample period).

I am so happy I stumbled onto this article. My $500 buck HP EX487 homeserver and my $900 buck Z545 HTPC have been replaced by an old Acer and a $100 buck apple TV. I cannot even describe how hard I worked top build a home media network that was energy efficient. Your hackintosh did it!!! THANKS a million. @ Basshead – Same here.

My july 2011 Mini mac is the i5 2.5GHz version, with one western digital HD plugged in, I pull 12-20 Watts. Its my day to day comp and I game a bit, so I don’t have a good idle baseline yet. I am going to run a dedicated kill-a-watt test on it soon when its idle for the night. If the wattage is close to the 10-12 I am drawing with my “new” Acer rig, I may be tempted to run my new toy 24/7. It is incredible how powerful chips are getting while drawing so much less current. Here are Apples numbers from the environmental impact sheet, but I suspect based upon my initial testing that this is from the baseline model.

Mode 100V 115V 230V Off 0.21W 0.21W 0.23W Sleep 1.16W 1.14W 1.16W Idle 12.97W 12.97W 12.85W Power supply efficiency 89% 89% 89% Thanks again for your guide. I am encouraged to see others trying to solve the low-power/full-time home server issue as well.

In most parts of the US, we are still lucky to have cheap power, but times-they-are-a-changin. @ breaking free- i have read that some users have gotten the ZG5 stock atheros wi-fi working using a kext from the repository. If you are trying to finish out your hackintosh, it may be worth goggling to see if this is the case. : Hi, When I install Chameleon 2 RC4 in my external hard drive it says it was successful, but the boot and extra folder are not there.

I tried to put some files, and says “Not enough space a disk”. What should I do? Before you installed Mac OS X did you erase the hard drive to Mac OS X (Journaled) so that all the old Windows OS is gone?

If you did not, then open Disk Utility and delete the Windows Partition. If none of this works then your Hard Drive is obviously not big enough to hold the files What is the size of your hard drive? ::: Ive gotten everything to work, except for the SD Card Slots. I’m running Linux Mint 11, Snow Leopard 10.6.7, and Windows XP Home Edition SP 2.

It is not really too hard to get sleep, sound, Bluetooth, and the track pad to work. So if you are having any issues just reply to this comment. @Helper101: how did you get sleep to work? You need to be updated to 10.6.7. Get the latest version of Sleep Enable kext. Place it in Extra-Extensions.

Then run Kext Utlity. Reboot and wala. How can i update to 10.6.7? I am right now at 10.6.1. Thanks in advance! : Ive gotten everything to work, except for the SD Card Slots.

I’m running Linux Mint 11, Snow Leopard 10.6.7, and Windows XP Home Edition SP 2. It is not really too hard to get sleep, sound, Bluetooth, and the track pad to work. So if you are having any issues just reply to this comment. Can you specify wich version of sleepenabler you used? I’m on 10.6.7 nad it only hide the cursor when I get it to sleep, the screen remains on and the processor seems to be running as fast as when it’s not in sleep mode. Any kind of help would be appreciated since it’s most likely the last thing that isn’t working on my Aspire One. (Triple booted with Windows 7 and Backtrack btw).

First of all: Many thanks for this great guide. I finally have OSX 10.6.3 running on my second hand Acer Aspire. Only having a problem when I want to update with a combo package. Already tried two different onse: 10.6.5 and 10.6.6 and both give me the same result.

I just can choose my HDD because update give an Javascript error. HDD has a yellow warning sign and update won’t install. Allreday checked my partiton and everything is OK. Funny things is that I have upgraded from 10.6 to 10.6.3 using the combo update. But somehow I am not able to go further. (alreday have a patched mach_kernel).

::: Ive gotten everything to work, except for the SD Card Slots. I’m running Linux Mint 11, Snow Leopard 10.6.7, and Windows XP Home Edition SP 2. It is not really too hard to get sleep, sound, Bluetooth, and the track pad to work. So if you are having any issues just reply to this comment.

@Helper101: how did you get sleep to work? You need to be updated to 10.6.7.

Get the latest version of Sleep Enable kext. Place it in Extra-Extensions. Then run Kext Utlity. Reboot and wala. Hi, I’m now running SL 10.6.7, Left SD card, sound-out, trackpad, VGA-out (extended), wi-fi, camera, all working great.

(you can ask me for advice for these) BUT I just can’t get sleep to work. I’ve downloaded SleepEnabler Kext for 10.6.7: doesn’t work, the computer goes to black screen, sleeps for one micro-second, wakes up and then the pointer freezes. Helper 101, could you sent me your Kext? Or what am I doing wrong?

Sleep is kind of extremely useful Also, as Franky said, the link is broken for the microphone kext, it would be great to repost it, as some software like rosetta stone and skype requires it! :::: Ive gotten everything to work, except for the SD Card Slots. I’m running Linux Mint 11, Snow Leopard 10.6.7, and Windows XP Home Edition SP 2. It is not really too hard to get sleep, sound, Bluetooth, and the track pad to work. So if you are having any issues just reply to this comment. @Helper101: how did you get sleep to work? You need to be updated to 10.6.7.

Get the latest version of Sleep Enable kext. Place it in Extra-Extensions. Then run Kext Utlity. Reboot and wala. Hi, I’m now running SL 10.6.7, Left SD card, sound-out, trackpad, VGA-out (extended), wi-fi, camera, all working great. (you can ask me for advice for these) BUT I just can’t get sleep to work.

I’ve downloaded SleepEnabler Kext for 10.6.7: doesn’t work, the computer goes to black screen, sleeps for one micro-second, wakes up and then the pointer freezes. Helper 101, could you sent me your Kext? Or what am I doing wrong?

Sleep is kind of extremely useful Also, as Franky said, the link is broken for the microphone kext, it would be great to repost it, as some software like rosetta stone and skype requires it! Hew how did you get sd card to work? My ZG5 crashes evertime i put in a sd card (no´t responding anymore) and same problem here no mic no sleep 😦 need help. :::: Ive gotten everything to work, except for the SD Card Slots. I’m running Linux Mint 11, Snow Leopard 10.6.7, and Windows XP Home Edition SP 2. It is not really too hard to get sleep, sound, Bluetooth, and the track pad to work. So if you are having any issues just reply to this comment.

@Helper101: how did you get sleep to work? You need to be updated to 10.6.7. Get the latest version of Sleep Enable kext. Place it in Extra-Extensions.

Then run Kext Utlity. Reboot and wala. Hi, I’m now running SL 10.6.7, Left SD card, sound-out, trackpad, VGA-out (extended), wi-fi, camera, all working great. (you can ask me for advice for these) BUT I just can’t get sleep to work.

I’ve downloaded SleepEnabler Kext for 10.6.7: doesn’t work, the computer goes to black screen, sleeps for one micro-second, wakes up and then the pointer freezes. Helper 101, could you sent me your Kext? Or what am I doing wrong?

Sleep is kind of extremely useful Also, as Franky said, the link is broken for the microphone kext, it would be great to repost it, as some software like rosetta stone and skype requires it! Hi, can you please tell me how you got your wifi to work. Did you have your wifi replaced or are you still using the stock atheros wifi. I have an acer aspire one 751h 2gb ram. Then I’ve got iMac 27 (mid-2010) with snow leopard and mountain lion (previously lion). I know how to clone the partitions from one drive/partition to another etc and wondered if there would be any way that I could clone snow leopard rather than install? I’m don’t really wanna buy a snow leopard retail install disk to do this when if its even worse than windows on that NetBoot, I will just take it off and that’ll be money wasted when could of gotten something else for the price of what snow leopard is.

I’ve attempted at downloading a retail copy of snow leopard, but couldn’t find any torrent that will download at 300/400kbit/s which is the average download speed of my connection where I live, and instead it’s at most downloading at about 3-10kb/s so to download a 4gbit file at 10kb/s top damnnnnnnn. I’m thinking of getting a mid 2010/2009 white MacBook sometime as they are quite a bit cheaper than the other MacBooks and from what I’ve heard, the iBook G4 is still really really useful and all that.

But if I can get snow leopard on my NetBoot and it runs reasonably smoothly then that’s that sorted for portability non-iPad/iPod stuff and I will go out get an official snow leopard install disk, but for something that I would like to see function well and prove as useable before hand on my netbook, I’m not gonna throw away 100 so USD or what ever price snow leopard is now for a cause that gonna be useless. Although saying that, got dell computer downstairs that’d be KOOL to turn into a snow leopard install and yes I think snow leopard as even on my iMac with 16gb ram and 3.6ghz i3, lion and especially mountain lion prove power greedy on stuff compared to snow leopard and snow leopard is almost instant on with the boot times where as lion and now mountain lion both take around a minute to start. Can’t do anything though for a while until I found my cable to charge the damn netbook lol ^_^.

Than i get this error Install Failed Mac OSX couple not be installed on your computer 1. You have to use a retail disk. This error happens any time you use an OEM disk, because it has drivers for exactly that MODEL of mac The installer could not start up the computer from the disk “MAC OSX” Try selecting your disc using the startup utility That is no biggie, it can be fixed by booting off the thumb drive, selecting your new mac install, then going into it and install Chamelon or any other bootloader. “One interesting thing I found is that Mac OS is clever enough to not position buttons off screen, as shown below.[] Just a little touch, but it shows the amount of thought that goes into Mac OS.” Wellthat’s exactly what is not happening on my Aspire-instllation.

I just started Fotobooth and experienced cut-off-buttons at the bottom. Same with a couple of other applications. The buttons are either off-screen or below the dock because the maximum resolution of aspire-one’s monitor is 1024 x 800. • Having big problems with hotel part of Booking ID.

Hotel has no booking, @ not fixed for three days. • 3 days before wedding @ Limerick tell Bride and Groom no rooms available for 80 guests flying in from UK. Hotel has overbooked. • RT @: Come on, Valve. On this special day.

A trailer, an announcement, anything. • Thanks @, now I can't reset my password to play the game I PAID for.

Do you want to increase piracy? • You Might Want to Wait Before Updating Some Devices to iOS 7 - highly recommended for the iPad 3.